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First report of natural infection of Citron (Citrus medica L.) by ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma aurantifolia’ in Iran [PDF]

open access: yesمجله بیوتکنولوژی کشاورزی, 2015
‘Candidatus Phytoplasma aurantifolia’ has been reported as causal agent of witches’ broom disease in Mexican lime (Citrus aurantifolia L.), Bakraee (Citrus sp.) and Grapefruit (Citrus paradisi Macfad) trees in Iran.
Mahdi Azadvar   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

PARTY‐STATE URBANISM: Coevolution of Local State Capacity and Strategic Alliances in Shenzhen

open access: yesInternational Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is distinct about Chinese urban governance? Classic theories predict that when the central state retreats from resource allocation, capacity‐strained local governments must form alliances with non‐state actors, thereby diluting state power. In China, however, state power remains dominant despite decentralization.
Yunhan Wen
wiley   +1 more source

The Maids, Mother and 'The Other One' of the Discworld

open access: yes, 2012
Fantasy novelist Terry Pratchetts Discworld is inhabited by a very diverse group of characters ranging from Death and his horse Binky, Cut-Me-Own-Throat-Dibbler, purveyor of the pork pie, the Wizard faculty of the Unseen University and an unofficial ...
Bent, Jacquelyn, Gavin, Helen
core   +1 more source

BURNING HOT WITCHES

open access: yes, 2023
BURNING HOT WITCHES * QRt by PRURITUS MIGRANS * CC: BY-NC ...
Pruritus Migrans
core   +1 more source

How Modern Witches Enchant TikTok: Intersections of Digital, Consumer, and Material Culture(s) on #WitchTok

open access: yesReligions, 2022
WitchTok describes a sub-section of the social media platform TikTok, which caters to Contemporary Pagans and other practitioners of modern Witchcraft.
Chris Miller
doaj   +1 more source

Looking at Us Through Their Eyes. The Analytical Process from Ethnographic Perspectives1

open access: yesJournal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This article looks at the analytical situation through the Others’ eyes—through examples from contemporary ethnographies of foreign cultures. It discusses the following issues: a) The analogy between the ontological worlds of the dead, ghosts, animals and dreams in “primitive populations” and the analytical psychological descriptions of the ...
Stefano Carta
wiley   +1 more source

La melanconia delle streghe e delle possedute. Aspetti del dibattito medico-demonologico in Francia tra Cinquecento e Seicento [PDF]

open access: yesLaboratorio dell'ISPF, 2018
[The melancholy of witches and possessed women. Aspects of the medical-demonological debate in France between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries]. The numerous trials for witchcraft and demonic possession that took place in France between 1550 and ...
Cristina DESSI'
doaj   +1 more source

De Stupro: First Insights on Rape and Its Prosecution in Maltese Courts (1701–10)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article constitutes a first in‐depth investigation of rape and the prosecution of this crime in early eighteenth‐century Malta. The research, which is based on sixteen rape accusations claimed at the secular courts in Malta between 1701 and 1710, has analysed cases categorized as ‘simple rape’, ‘violent rape’ and rape committed under the ...
Vanessa Buhagiar
wiley   +1 more source

Evil and Superstition in Sub-Saharan Africa: Religious Infanticide and Filicide

open access: yes, 2015
A distinct category of women has been identified in different parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, those who commit extreme forms of violence and murder against their children in order to fulfil their religious obligations or to protect themselves from perceived
Agazue, Chima Damian   +2 more
core   +1 more source

‘I, Me, Myself’: Selfhood and Melancholy in the Journals of Gertrude Savile (1697–1758)

open access: yesJournal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the journals of Gertrude Savile from 1727 in light of recent scholarship on early modern and eighteenth‐century melancholy. The concept had myriad associations with medicine, physiology, the imagination, and feeling, but questions remain about how melancholy during this period was considered by those outside the narrow ...
Daniel Beaumont
wiley   +1 more source

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